{"id":1194,"date":"2025-09-14T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:22:06","slug":"la-monstruosidad-de-la-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/en\/2025\/09\/14\/la-monstruosidad-de-la-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"The monstrosity of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Carlos Mendoza-\u00c1lvarez<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week I was invited to the presentation in Cuernavaca of a book that contains a failed conversation between John Milbank, a British Anglican theologian, and Slavo \u017di\u017eek, a Slovenian atheist philosopher, about the monstrosity of Christ (The monstrosity of Christ: paradox or dialectic?<\/a>). The Spanish translation was published by the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, at the initiative of \u00c1ngel M\u00e9ndez Montoya, as part of an innovative publishing program to offer readers in Mexico and the Spanish-speaking world current theological debates surrounding God as an ontological problem, as a source of ethical meaning in a modern civilization shaken to its foundations, and as a political problem.<\/p>\n

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Before attending the presentation at the Miguel Salinas Gallery Library of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, located in the historic center of the city in an old house restored as a cultural center, I had the fortune of talking with the Juarez artist Iv\u00e1n Gardea, when visiting his exhibition at the Borda Garden<\/a> which is open to the public until the end of September.<\/p>\n

Maestro Gardea, in addition to being an impressive engraver in the most rigorous Mexican tradition of printmaking that dates back to Posadas and the Taller de Gr\u00e1fica Colectiva a century ago, is a born thinker, well-versed in literature, music, philosophy, and theology. We met in his studio six years ago to prepare for the exhibition of his series of prints on violence inspired by the thought of Ren\u00e9 Girard. We held this exhibition at the Andrea Pozzo Gallery of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2019, on the occasion of the international conference "Resist! Violence, Resistance, and Spiritualities," organized jointly by the Jesuit university and the International Journal of Theology Concilium, where I had the opportunity to serve on the board of directors and editorial board for eight years.<\/p>\n

During our conversation in the bright colonial courtyard of the Jard\u00edn Borda, Iv\u00e1n told me stories about his ongoing artwork, a series of prints specifically about the monstrosity of the sacred in today's society, lost between Western liberalism, "devoid of any belief," and the materialistic atheisms that abound in both academic and social circles. In Iv\u00e1n's opinion, although I correctly interpret it, this monstrosity has many facets, among them nihilism as a way of life without hope. I was greatly surprised to hear his reflections, since that same afternoon we were to discuss the "monstrosity" of Christ in the \u017di\u017eek-Milbank debate.<\/p>\n

So I briefly summarized the ideas I would later express regarding that book, alternating with my beloved colleagues Sylvia Marcos, a renowned gender anthropologist in Mesoamerica who met \u017di\u017eek in Slovenia; \u00c1ngel M\u00e9ndez, a queer theologian who worked on his doctoral thesis on the theology of food under Milbank's supervision; and Nicol\u00e1s Panotto, an Argentine Protestant theologian with whom I share projects in the "Theology After Gaza" group convened two years ago by Mitri Raheb to rethink political theology.<\/p>\n

In the cloister of the Borda Garden, I commented to Iv\u00e1n that, in my opinion, the monstrosity that was important to discern today was that of the religion that perverts the sacred, expressed as Jewish and Christian Zionism, associated with far-right movements around the world that, in the name of God, not only pervert the Bible in their theology of election and promise, but also incite genocidal violence by manipulating the religious sentiment of entire communities. Another example is the case of televangelist Paula White in the White House advising Trump, his vice president Vince, and Secretary of State Rubio in a crusade to bring their country "back to Christian values."<\/p>\n

Another emblematic example of the monstrosity of religion within religious institutions are the criminal cases of manipulation of religion by corrupt leaders, creating financial empires based on boundless ambition and controlling the dormant masses. This phenomenon has produced corruption among political, social, and religious elites in various parts of the world, accompanied by sexual and spiritual abuse, and the trafficking of political and financial privileges by perverse religious figures such as Marcial Maciel and Naas\u00f3n Garc\u00eda in Mexico, Fernando Karadima in Chile, and the leaders of the Sodalicio in Peru.<\/p>\n

This monstrosity of religion is what matters most to analyze from a critical perspective in order to contribute to dismantling its power networks in society. It is urgent to do so through investigative journalism like that of Emiliano Ruiz Parra (Emiliano Ruiz Parra: HBO series, massive vehicle for the demystification of Marcial Maciel<\/a>), of truth commissions such as the one proposed by then-candidate Bori\u010d in Chile (which, incidentally, was never implemented), to ensure accountability to society as an obligation of the secular state and, above all, to guarantee restorative justice for victims.<\/p>\n

Ivan called these religious groups of today a parody of religion and, at the same time, another version of modernity that is collapsing in our times.<\/p>\n

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Inspired by this fascinating conversation, I decided to share my thoughts at the book launch at the event organized by the UAEM School of Psychology, in conjunction with the Jean Robert and Sylvia Marcos Double Legacy Chair. I summarize what I presented at that discussion.<\/p>\n

The first thing was to underline the importance of approaching the book as a theological provocation from our Latin American and Caribbean context, so that it is possible to make a critical reading of the European authors of the book, closely following their argumentation and highlighting other intercultural perspectives of approaching the mysterion<\/em> of the real that religions call God.<\/p>\n

Then, it is worth remembering that the meaning of Christ for humanity in times of civilizational collapse that we are experiencing today seems an irrelevant issue in the face of the exponential increase in violence under a new figure that some call, following Ren\u00e9 Girard, the "escalation to the extremes of the annihilation of the other." It does not seem relevant to discuss a religious figure who was trapped by a religion that domesticated his universal love. It seems even less important to get lost in the debate between a Slovenian philosopher and a British theologian when we find ourselves in the midst of the desolation of wars of genocide in Gaza, of extermination in Congo and South Sudan, of forced disappearances in Mexico, where the urgent thing is to stop the spiral of hatred if we wish to speak of the ethos<\/em> political and spiritual possible for humanity in this uncertain hour.<\/p>\n

And it is precisely here that the question of the experience of Jesus of Nazareth in the first century CE, facing hatred in his own body, may be relevant to us today.<\/p>\n

Academic debates often stray into the realm of ideas, no matter how grounded they may be. Defending or accusing Hegel of various solutions to the dialectic of history to justify theological materialism, as \u017di\u017eek does, or promoting Milbank's radical orthodoxy as a guardian of the City of God, seem secondary when it comes to confronting another monstrosity, one that has many heads, like the one of hatred and death produced by the capitalist, patriarchal, and white, Western hegemonic hydra.<\/p>\n

Even defending or accusing Meister Eckhart - or better yet the former Dominican friar Rainer Sch\u00fcrmann (The Principle of Anarchy: Heidegger and the Question of Action<\/a>), one of its modern interpreters, often cited by \u017di\u017eek, for his interpretation of the negativity of divine being as the antecedent of the moment of negativity of the Hegelian dialectic seems like straw when the priority is to think about the negativity of those who inhabit \u201cthe region of non-being,\u201d as Fanon said, and are being reduced to nothing.<\/p>\n

I then proposed a decolonial approach to the book The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic<\/em>A scholarly book that will generate much ink in the academic world, whether to validate \u017di\u017eek's theological agnosticism or to confirm Milbank's theological philosophy. The crucial question the book poses lies in the impasse of reason in the face of the mystery of being. However, what is worth exploring is a different ontological approach, one that conceives of "being that ages and dies," as Levinas said.<\/p>\n

To do so, it is necessary to turn to the Bible as the original source of this understanding of the paradox of being, and then to apophatic philosophy to spell out the intelligibility of the absurd when Christianity announces a "crucified Messiah" as the meaning of history. Following this route, it will be possible to cross the abyss to think about the monstrosity of being, but as the radiance of the messianic moment in which history seems to open like a recess of "hope against all hope" through "the wounds that heal."<\/p>\n

Thus, another way of speaking about the critical link between philosophy, theology and politics emerges, not as an idea or as potestas<\/em> politics, but as a messianic knot, that is, resistance to violence woven by those who live in \u201cthe shadows of the shadows of the shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n

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"By his wounds we shall be healed," says the oxymoron from the book of Isaiah (53:5), written by a disciple of the prophet during his people's exile in Babylon. This is perhaps the pinnacle of Old Testament revelation and one of the most radical truths about the human condition, politics, and hope. It is in this light, of course, that the torture and execution of Jesus of Nazareth by the Roman authorities, in complicity with the authorities of the Temple of Jerusalem and the enraged mob, will be read centuries later.<\/p>\n

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Exile was a spiritual and theological place for the disciple of the prophet, as it was for John the Baptist and so many prophets throughout history, "whose voice cries in the wilderness" (John 1:23). Until we reach the voice of Munther Isaac in the 2021 Christmas sermon in Bethlehem, Palestine. The Babylonian exile signified a contradiction for the expatriated people: on the one hand, the pain of being torn from their homeland; on the other, the recognition that they have only been able to live off the crumbs of Nebuchadnezzar II, the Babylonian king. And yet, in the four poems preserved in the Book of Isaiah, the true source of life will be the disciple-people. Babylonian power crushed Davidic power. But the people survived by virtue of their fidelity to the first covenant, if not all, at least a few. Tzadikkim<\/em> or just people in history. And so, that suffering people is the source of "another way of being," beyond the essence of Babylonian power, in the power of those who resist. They are the servant of Yhwh<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Following this spark from the anonymous disciple of Isaiah, we can then reread the history of "the cursed of the earth," yesterday and today. In particular, the history of the Palestinian people, who, in the depths of their pain from the genocide they suffered, allow us all to heal from their wounds if we open our lives and actions to this cry. A slogan of the Global Sumud Flotilla says precisely this: "They wanted to erase Palestine, and now Palestine sails all the seas."<\/p>\n

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Faced with the monstrosity of the exile in Babylon, the Hebrew people of the anawin<\/em>, from the poor of God, brings forth the beauty of Sumud or resistance to the catastrophe that has befallen them.<\/p>\n

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What dialectic of history in the Hegelian reading recreated by \u017di\u017eek governs history? That of opposites that annihilate each other in search of a supposed synthesis of Aufhebung<\/em> or overcoming this rivalry that only prolongs the death throes of humanity with the triumph of the executioners.<\/p>\n

Nor is the philosophy of the City of God, yearned for by John Milbank as a return to theocracy, overcoming the narrow limits of modern autonomy that became a nightmare, capable of crossing the abysmal line that separates privilege from desolation.<\/p>\n

Are both authors in this fictitious dialogue right in raising the alternative between the dialectic of Holy Saturday that annihilates the weak in the Sheol<\/em> and the paradox of Easter Sunday, which is announced as the triumph of the victims over the executioners?<\/p>\n

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Neither paradox nor dialectic, but messianic contraction of the being that ages and dies.<\/p>\n

Eckhart warned us about figures and idols (deitas<\/em>) that replace the ineffable God (diuinitas<\/em>). They can be religious or political idols. What is crucial in the life of the Spirit is, therefore, for the German Dominican, detachment (Gellasenheit<\/em>) as a form of apophatic or negative, non-dialectical negation of the impersonations of Divinity.<\/p>\n

Pseudo-Dionysius had previously explored this path of overcoming the ego, giving rise to the experience of the Mothers and Fathers of the desert in their confrontation with the demons before arriving at the contemplation of the mysterion<\/em> of the living God.<\/p>\n

Therefore, today, apophatic theology is a companion to the political theory of the commons, proposed by collectives and subjectivities located on the peripheries of the hegemonic world, but rooted in the world of the vital connection between the human, the cosmic, and the divine.<\/p>\n

By listening to the outcry, indignation, and hope of today's most vulnerable, we can then access the apparent monstrosity of Christ, which then becomes the beauty of the forgotten who re-exist when they say enough to the violence of the imperial being that kills.<\/p>\n

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